Game piece



Patented Dec. Z3, 1924.

srrss rezan CHRISTIAN J'. WAHL, 0F MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA.

GAME PIECE.

Application led November To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN J. VVAr-IL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Michigan City, in the county of La Porte, State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GamePieces; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

rlhis invention relates to new and useful improvements in game pieces,and particularly to pieces used in the game of quoits.

In a large number of localities horseshoes are used in playing the gameof quoits, and it is with a particular form of horseshoe for playingthis game that the present device deals.

One object of the invention is to provide a horseshoe of this characterwhich is so formed that it is properly balanced, and when tossed by aplayer, will fly through the air, and land on the ground in the samemanner, and assume the same positions as the ordinary circular quoit.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the followingdescription when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a plan View of a horseshoe made in accordance with thepresent invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2 2 of Figure l.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Figure 1.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, 10 represents thebody of the game piece, which is in the form of a horseshoe, includingthe leg portions 1l and the curved bight portion 12. It will be notedthat the bight portion is the major part of a true circle, with the legportions extending in tangential relation from the ends of the bightportion and in convergent relation, as

clearly seen in the plan view, Figure 1. The

terminals of the leg portions are turned outwardly away from each other,as shown at 1, 1923. Serial No.v 672,132.

13. Formed in the bight portion, and extending longitudinally thereof,from each side of the center, in parallel relation to the sides or edgesof said portion, are the slots 14, while in the legs 11 are formedsimilar slots which conform to the contour of said legs, shown at 15. Inthe center of the bight portion, and forming the division between theadjacent ends of theslots 14:, is a web 16, of a thickness equal to thatof the body of the shoe. Between the slots 14 and 15, and at thejunction of the legs with the ends'of the bight portion, are the webs17, the same being of approximately one-third the thickness of the bodyof the shoe, and spaced centrally of the said thickness of the shoe.yThe terminals of the leg portions are solid, as shown at 18. By thisconstruction, the weight of the portion of the shoe at one side of thesection line 3 3 will be equal to that at the other side of said line,whereby the body o-f the piece will be properly balanced, and willfunction in the same manner as the ordinary circular disk quoit.

What is claimed is:

l. A quoit in the form of a horseshoe and comprising a body havingr legportions and a connecting bight portion, openings in the bight and legportions, and webs whereby to balance the leg and bight portions. f

2. A quoit in the form of a'horseshoe and comprising a body having legportions, and a connecting bight portion, the bight portion havinglongitudinally extending slots terminating adjacent the juncture of thebight and leg portions and separated at the center of the bight portionby a web of a thickness equal to that of the body, the terminals of thelegs having webs, and longitudinal slots, the body having webs at thejuncture of the bight and legs of a thickness less than that of the bodyand centered with respect to the thickness of the body.

.In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHRISTIAN J. WAHL.

Witnesses:

CLARA A.- DARRON, ELIZABETH BYEWTZ.

